In one poem in this collection, an "American voice demands" "Now dear child/ What's wrong" before launching into a prayer that leaves them "twitching and loud", and that poem, "Faith Healing", is followed by another American voice, which "falls as they say love should", "For Sidney Bechet". Another poem in this collection c
In one poem in this collection, an "American voice demands" "Now dear child/ What's wrong" before launching into a prayer that leaves them "twitching and loud", and that poem, "Faith Healing", is followed by another American voice, which "falls as they say love should", "For Sidney Bechet". Another poem in this collection concludes with the narrator asking one of the title characters to give him his arm, a reference to The Wind and the Willows and that poem, "Toads Revisited", refers back to a poem in an earlier collection. Another poem in this collection features an earl and countess whom "time has transfixed… into/ Untruth" and who "Rigidly…/ Persisted" in "their supine stationary voyage". In addition to "An Arundel Tomb", this collection, published 11 years after its author's The Less Deceived, features a poem in which the narrator watches fathers who "had never known/ Success so huge and wholly farcical" and girls unreally marked off by "lemons, mauves, and olive-ochres", all of whom gather aboard the train that the narrator if riding following the namesake holiday. For 10 points, name this collection by Philip Larkin about matrimonial ceremonials on a certain holiday.
In one poem in this collection, an "American voice demands" "Now dear child/
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